Jazz Exit Interviews

[jope]

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If donovan is able to lock himself in a gym with DWade for a summer, its going to get insane up in here.

 

[candrew]

Great optics when you've raised ticket prices (in some cases) 130%

 

[NUMBERICA]

I think a lot of running a franchise is like playing in a game -- there are lots of random flukes that drastically influence the outcome. You want to take the right shots. You can get the right shots and they just don't fall, while other people can shoot really bad shots but just get them to fall, but you just have to play the strategy that's most likely going to produce over larger samples. DL has, for the most part, maintained a good shot-selection. However, for the past year and a half he's been like the old Joe Ingles who would pass up open shots. The underlying idea is "pass up a good shot to get a better shot," but, just like with Joe, the best shot was really the wide-open one he had that he passed out of, which is what I feel DL has been doing. Right now we've got two seconds on the clock and DL just got the ball -- it doesn't matter how we thought we'd get a better shot anymore because whatever look he has in the next second is what we have to live with, and we better hope to hell it falls.

Wonderfully put.

 

[candrew]

Crowder - one of the most disliked players in the league - is going to recruit players to Utah.

Hallelujah, we're saved.

Lol.

So we know Robert Covington is off the table.

 

[Miggs]

Does improving the team with a big FA to the point where other key roleplayers want to come here too factor into his equation ie Houston? Creating momentum of the group, etc. Not to mention the benefits it'd have for Donovan. If he fails this off-season, oof. What a failure.

Agreed. Once one big guy is brought in, let's say Conley, and the roster clearly appears on the cusp, one or two key free agents may come here, to chase a ring, and at discounted price. It happens all the time.

 

[Miggs]

Crowder - one of the most disliked players in the league - is going to recruit players to Utah.

Hallelujah, we're saved.

Crowder is disliked?

 

[NUMBERICA]

Crowder is disliked?

You're right, he just gets in three scrums a game and that makes him a beloved figure.

 

[Miggs]

Part of his thinking, and I'm spitballing here, may have been that no one is beating the Warriors this year, and likely next year (though that may not be the case now with the Knicks rumors), so did it make much sense to overpay for an aging Conley? Maybe he thought it prudent to NOT overpay this past deadline, and see in the summer of 2019 who opts in and out and is renounced pre-free agency, and then attack from there. Why lock in to Conley if we didn't have to and could go after a bigger, younger name?

Okay, I jest, I jest. Name one big name non-foreign player, not from Alaska free agent who's signed here in the last 20 years!

But seriously, it made some sense. Maybe we can get someone else (not maing 30M+ and 31 years old) or Conley for less now knowing the Grizz very well might want to go full tank all season by playing their young guys major minutes.

 

[Miggs]

You're right, he just gets in three scrums a game and that makes him a beloved figure.

I'm not looking to argue. I'm simply posing the question. I've never heard he's disliked and quite frankly, scrums during a game doesn't mean someone is disliked. Tons of guys get into scrums most games.

 

[infection]

Part of his thinking, and I'm spitballing here, may have been that no one is beating the Warriors this year, and likely next year (though that may not be the case now with the Knicks rumors), so did it make much sense to overpay for an aging Conley? Maybe he thought it prudent to NOT overpay this past deadline, and see in the summer of 2019 who opts in and out and is renounced pre-free agency, and then attack from there. Why lock in to Conley if we didn't have to and could go after a bigger, younger name?

Okay, I jest, I jest. Name one big name non-foreign player, not from Alaska free agent who's signed here in the last 20 years!

But seriously, it made some sense. Maybe we can get someone else or Conley for less now knowing the Grizz very well might want to go full tank all season playing their young guys major minutes.

He would have grabbed Conley if he could have. He let the leak of the trade loom over the team for two weeks. He basically told them "yeah, here's our offer, take as much time as you need." Us not trading for Conley wasn't because we chose not to (unless you count refusing to include Exum as "choosing not to"), but he's tried to cash in on that, such as saying that he valued chemistry and that's why they ultimately decided not to make a move at the deadline. That's false. Had Memphis called on the last day and said "we'll take your offer," we would have moved whoever we had offered.

 

[Miggs]

He would have grabbed Conley if he could have. He let the leak of the trade loom over the team for two weeks. He basically told them "yeah, here's our offer, take as much time as you need." Us not trading for Conley wasn't because we chose not to (unless you count refusing to include Exum as "choosing not to"), but he's tried to cash in on that, such as saying that he valued chemistry and that's why they ultimately decided not to make a move at the deadline. That's false. Had Memphis called on the last day and said "we'll take your offer," we would have moved whoever we had offered.

I do count not including Exum as choosing not to.

 

[infection]

I do count not including Exum as choosing not to.

I bet he wishes he could take that decision back. I've consistently said that we walk out of the gas station with a lottery ticket and refuse to sell it to someone offering us $100 for it. It only took us a week or two after the deadline to scratch that ticket and wish we had a do-over.